Capitalism: The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx

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Marxism has intriguing perspective on capitalism. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels composed The Communist Manifesto, which is about Marxism. In the writing the men dicuss three classifications of people, bourgeoisie, proletariat, and lumpenproletariat. The bourgeoisie are the people who dominate the production industry, while the proletariat are the people who do the grunt work. The lumpenproletariat are people who are part of the lower class and do not care about starting a revolution. Karl Marx wrote, “In the earlier epochs of history we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangements of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank.”1 Every civilization in history has had some formation of social class arrangement from